Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Cartwright Hall is Bradford's civic art gallery and offers an exciting programme of contemporary exhibitions, with four permanent galleries displaying works from our art collections. The collections consist mainly of 19th and 20th century British art, with strong collections of international contemporary prints and contemporary South Asian art and crafts.
In 2008 Cartwright Hall re-opened its upper galleries with Connect, a new permanent exhibition funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Connect makes connections between works of art from different cultures and times. This transcultural concept combines over two hundred Eastern and Western works of art displayed according to the universal themes of People, Place and Imagination.
Our Learning Team runs a programme of workshops and events for schools, groups and individuals. Many of Cartwright Hall's facilities are available for hire and the Gallery is also licensed for civil marriages.
Cartwright Hall has been collecting prints for over one hundred years and its collection includes works by master printmakers such as Francisco Goya, William Blake and Walter Sickert and by modern masters - Pop Artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Richard Hamilton. We also have the four major series of prints produced by David Hockney; Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, The Blue Guitar, A Rake’s Progress and Illustrations of the Poetry of C. P. Cavafy.
Cartwright Hall is set in the magnificent, Green Flag-awarded grounds of Lister Park, with a boating lake, adventure playground and Mughal Gardens. There is a privately run cafe in the Lister Park boat house which opens seasonally.
Education
Welcome to Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Learning & Outreach programme.
We provide a range of educational opportunities and cultural experiences to support your 2014/15 curriculum needs. Our workshops, offered at a range of costs, cater for fully supported workshops, introductory sessions or self-service visits.
Lowry Landscapes
Keystage: KS1
Curriculum links to Art, History & Maths
Pupils will use LS Lowry’s original painting ‘An Industrial Landscape’ from 1952 to explore how pictures can tell us about what life was like in the past. Looking at shape and colour and then relating Lowry’s landscape to their own locality, pupils will create their own landscape piece.
1.5 hour workshop
£90 per class
Art & Science of Noticing: Bradford Explorer
Keystage: KS1
Curriculum links to Art, History & English
An enquiry based workshop that encourages children to respond to artwork by artists such as David Hockney, L.S Lowry and Salima Hashmi. It supports children to make links between Bradford, other places and the world around them. Pupils investigate the artwork through hands on activities and are guided by their own curiosity to create personal responses.
1.5 hour workshop
£90 per class